{
  "slug": "seedance-and-seedream",
  "name": "Seedance and Seedream (ByteDance)",
  "url": "https://seed.bytedance.com",
  "cat": "gen",
  "group": "ai",
  "tagline": "Low-cost video and image models",
  "price": "Volcano Engine API: 480p $0.09/sec, 720p $0.21/sec, roughly $0.14/sec for Seedance 2.0. Dreamina subscriptions about $15/$35/$70 per month. Free about 60-120 credits/day.",
  "tier": "mixed",
  "pick": false,
  "what": "ByteDance's generative line: <b>Seedance 2.5</b> and 2.0 for video, <b>Seedream 5.0</b> for image. Distributed globally through Dreamina, in China through Jimeng, and to developers through Volcano Engine. Supports text, image, keyframe and video-to-video modes.",
  "why": "Among the strongest quality-per-dollar in video - about $0.09 a second at 480p undercuts every Western model. Seedream 5.0 is now resold as a workhorse image model inside Magnific, Krea and Higgsfield, which is the clearest signal of its quality.",
  "warn": "Access is fragmented across Volcano Engine, Dreamina and Jimeng with different terms in each, and commercial rights are poorly documented in English. Video-input modes cost dramatically more, scaling with reference clip length to several dollars per five-second output.",
  "install": "Volcano Engine API, plus resale through fal, Replicate and Higgsfield.",
  "category": {
    "key": "gen",
    "name": "AI media generation",
    "desc": "Image, video, voice and music. Commercial rights differ wildly by tier — check every warn.",
    "group": "ai",
    "groupName": "Put AI inside it"
  },
  "freshness": null,
  "health": {
    "ok": true,
    "status_code": 200,
    "final_url": "https://seed.bytedance.com/en/",
    "checked_at": "2026-08-18T23:43:12.623+00:00"
  },
  "corrected_at": null,
  "upstream_changed_at": null
}